Example sentences of "[prep] [art] fate [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've even growled at the horse , and threatened it with a fate worse than death , but to no avail ! |
| 2 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 3 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |
| 4 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 5 | ‘ He saved me from a fate worse than death , and it was all over so quick I never did get the chance to thank him properly . ’ |
| 6 | The heroine has escaped and alerted the police , who at the last minute burst in and save our hero from a fate worse than death . |
| 7 | ‘ Or do I just get rescued from a fate worse than death ? ’ |
| 8 | " Have this one and save him from a fate worse than death . " |
| 9 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 10 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |